New York Times bestselling author Tracy Chevalier joins guest host Courtney Collins to discuss her enduring characters who live and work in the decorative glassmaking trade outside Venice, why the author chose to follow one family continuously from the Renaissance to modern life, and the beauty found in small moments.
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Theodore Schleifer joins host Krys Boyd to give us an overview of the immense amount of money the campaigns are raising, a refresher on how PACs work, and how all this money from mega donors to average Joes will affect the race to the White House.
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Peter S. Goodman, global economics correspondent for The New York Times, joins host Krys Boyd to discuss how the supply chain changed after WWII, how labor practices and shipping routes revealed deep-seeded problems in the system, and what needs to happen to ensure economic certainty during the next global disaster.
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Linda Kinstler joins us to discuss the idea of “oblivion,” allowing society to forgive low-level offenders in order to heal a fractured society.
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New York Times Magazine staff writer Emily Bazelon joins host Krys Boyd to discuss what makes a university a “safe space” for free speech, how 90s era laws complicate that, and how students should be included in discussions about the rules of campus protesting.
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Despite the charged rhetoric to the contrary, there actually is work getting done in Washington.
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Frank Bruni, a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times, joins host Krys Boyd to discuss why Americans are finding identities in grievances, why hardships have become so performative, and how we are missing out on what’s working for the country, collectively.
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Mike Dang, a personal finance editor from The New York Times, discusses the struggle of young adults to care for aging parents while finding ways to save enough money for their own futures.
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Cade Metz from The New York Times joins guest host Courtney Collins to talk about how we want our tech to talk back to us and have feelings and why we are still so far away from that even being in the realm of possibility.
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New York Times science reporter Matt Richtel talks about creativity and what awakens it, the conditions where it thrives and what happens when it’s blocked.
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Suleika Jaouad joins us to talk about the cancer that left her fighting for life at a young age and how she’s reimagined what the future holds now that she’s cancer-free.
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The chief executive officer of Think of Us, a nonprofit focused on foster care, joins us to talk about the practice of kinship placement and the need for systemic change so that children aren’t kept from loving homes.
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